Teaching the skills towards becoming an Educated and Responsible Outdoor Recreationalist and learning the foundational skills of climbing to set one up for the adventures to come.
Skills taught:
- Trip Planning: Starting from how to read a guidebook and Mountain Project, to planning out where your adventures will take you.
- Anchor Building: How to build a variety of anchors and assess security and redundancy
- Rappelling and Lowering: ethics around both techniques, skills to tackle both, all while understanding how to make the decision of which technique is best suited for which situation one may find themselves in.
- Lead Climbing: Learn the foundational skills to understand what it takes to set up a climb.
Curriculum:
Day 1: Forming Meaningful Belaytionships
- Route finding, reading a guide book, planning out your trip
- Learn how to build and asses a variety of Anchors
- Develop the skills, while understanding the ethics and difference of Lowering and Rappelling off a route (how to clean a route)
- Put all of your new skills to work! Repetition is key when learning new tools!
Day 2: Becoming a Leader
- Tying all of the skills from the previous two weekends together
- Allowing space to practice skills and solidify confidence in education
- Opportunities to Mock Lead while diving deeper into the ‘How-To’s of setting up routes to facilitate your own day out to climb
What’s included:
- 2 guided days out with AMGA certified guide (Sat & Sun each weekend)
- 2 nights of camping accommodations (Fri & Sat each weekend)
- Group and personal climbing gear
- Climbing Permits
**Prerequisite: Top rope and lead belay, General movement on rock, climbing 5.8 comfortably on Top Rope, Ability to carry 30 lb pack for over a mile, Stoke to learn skills to become self-sufficient in the sport of climbing
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